By Cloud Computing News Desk  Moderro Technologies will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop – at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and friendly us... Nov. 18, 2008 08:00 PM |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  GigaSpaces Technologies has announced that Nati Shalom, founder and CTO, will be presenting at The Cloud Computing Expo. Shalom is a world-renowned evangelist of grid technology and cloud computing. In his role at GigaSpaces, he has worked with dozens of large organizations in the fina... Nov. 18, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 298 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Capgemini has announced an agreement signed between Capgemini UK plc and Amazon Web Services, extending its Outsourcing portfolio with cloud computing services. Capgemini’s new Center of Excellence, focused on cloud computing, will help its enterprise clients take full advantage of i... Nov. 18, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 238 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  SYS-CON Media announced today that its 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo sold out both on the Expo Floor and delegate registrations. The most anticipated technology event of the year in Silicon Valley will take place November 19-21, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose,... Nov. 18, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 383 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  rPath has hit the road to promote the graduated adoption of cloud computing technologies. This follows a podcast interview published on Friday during which Billy Marshall, rPath co-founder and chief strategy officer, speaks with a leading industry pundit about the importance of a manag... Nov. 18, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 267 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. Nov. 17, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 441 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Working across all of Sun, Senior Vice President, Dave Douglas, has been appointed today to lead the Company's cloud computing efforts. Simultaneously, in a package of "decisive actions to align Sun's business with global economic realities," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced a restr... Nov. 17, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 661 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  The Planet has announced limited availability of its new highly scalable and on-demand storage cloud service. The Planet has merged on-premise storage performance with cloud storage capabilities, which opens a whole new world for companies to extend their hosted environments directly i... Nov. 17, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 249 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  A round-up of the many themes and topics of interest to infrastructure architects, developers and IT managers featuring at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo being held November 19-21, 2008 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The conference is expecting a record turnout of senio... Nov. 17, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 886 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Moderro Technologies www.moderro.com will debut its Xpack Internet Computer – an integrated (hardware, operating system and web management) solution for the Web 2.0 desktop SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA. The Xpack features a clean and fr... Nov. 17, 2008 12:47 PM Reads: 199 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  "More than a half dozen conferences and events targeting Virtualization and Cloud Computing canceled in the past two months," said Fuat Kircaali, CEO of SYS-CON Media. "We predicted that this would be the outcome for many competing shows due to the current economic conditions," he adds... Nov. 17, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 816 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk SYS-CON Events announced today that more than 40 Cloud technology providers, as well as Virtualization and SOA companies will exhibit at the upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The conferenc... Nov. 16, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 974 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Increasingly, a businesses competitive advantage is gained by processing large flows of raw data into insights. With a growth in both the volume of data and number of users, traditional tools for data analytics struggle to keep pace. Large Internet services such as Yahoo!, who face a t... Nov. 16, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 803 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  "These are still the early days of Cloud Computing, where delivery has so far focused primarily on price, as set by the market leader, Amazon," notes Dave Durkee, Founder, CEO & Technical Director of ENKI Consulting. "However, while successful in the Web 2.0 market," he adds, "price-ba... Nov. 15, 2008 08:35 AM Reads: 859 Replies: 1 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Cloud Computing is the newbuzzword in the technology industry. But even industry insiders don’t agree on exactly what the term means. We shouldn’t be surprised that mainstream business is approaching it with caution. Businesses have many concerns about moving their data to the clou... Nov. 15, 2008 07:50 AM Reads: 1,381 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  Dan Chu, VMware's VP of Emerging Business, intends to take an industry leader's perspective next week when he presents a breakout session at SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (November 19-21, 2008) being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. Chu will a... Nov. 15, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 426 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Are cloud computing and grid computing one and the same? There are many similarities and one key difference separating these burgeoning fields. Both cloud and grid propose an architecture that masks the complexity of managing thousands of commodity servers from their users. Consequentl... Nov. 14, 2008 08:20 AM Reads: 315 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  "Cloud Computing by its very nature depends on the Network for both the construction of the Cloud as well as the delivery to users," declares David Bernstein, whose team runs Cisco's internal Cloud Computing platform. As VP and General Manager of Network Applications Infrastructure for... Nov. 14, 2008 07:35 AM Reads: 754 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  "The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the Cloud can unleash fear in many of us," concedes EMC's Cloud supremo Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of the storage giant's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Cloud technologies nonetheless offer many benef... Nov. 14, 2008 07:10 AM Reads: 981 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Mosso to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. More tha... Nov. 13, 2008 11:45 PM Reads: 763 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk "Cloud computing offers great promise by having third parties deliver the computing resources needed to run applications as an on-demand service, with a lot of the IT infrastructure invisible to the user," said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "However, at this point mos... Nov. 13, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 510 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the c... Nov. 13, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 488 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk; Maureen O'Gara  SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global Cloud Computing technology provider Cycle Computing to exhibit at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), whic... Nov. 12, 2008 11:00 PM Reads: 935 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk The Tap In Systems consists of a team of engineers and software developers with many years of experience in network management, systems management, software and web application development. Its members have worked in large corporate environments as well as start up ventures. Tap In Sys... Nov. 12, 2008 10:00 PM Reads: 371 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) will offer a free Cloud Bootcamp on November 20, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, California. Being held for the first time at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, on November 20,... Nov. 12, 2008 09:15 PM Reads: 1,085 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk How do cloud platforms assure that your application will perform well and meet the high expectations for your end users? In this session, we will take these clouds on a test flight - by running an application on a cloud platform, and examining performance bottlenecks and their impact o... Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 507 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Achieving an effective disaster recovery solution has always been difficult and expensive. Often companies backup and/or mirror their data and software only to find that when forced to run them on hardware and network configurations altered by disaster, they don't always work. Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 623 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Just as people begin to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise "Ops-Free" computing. Because it’s easy, scalable, available and disposable, the cloud is well on its way to becoming “technology’s next big thing.” However, ... Nov. 12, 2008 09:00 PM Reads: 641 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Cloud Computing is now an all-encompassing IT paradigm with tremendous focus on the so-called "Public Clouds" as IT Service Providers. But while the promise of public clouds is very alluring, many existing corporate data centers today exceed the total capacity of many of today's cloud ... Nov. 12, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 958 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Zenoss has rolled a new version of its a product suite. In addition to other enhancements, the new release adds native VMware monitoring across the full virtualization infrastructure life cycle. This latest version, Zenoss 2.3, now enables enterprise IT staff and cloud services provide... Nov. 12, 2008 09:50 AM Reads: 213 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk  SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal, founded in July 2008 as the world's first publication devoted exclusively to the issues involved in the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using Internet technologies, has announced the appointment of Cloud Computing expert Alan ... Nov. 12, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 792 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk The explosion of cloud computing providers dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for web entrepreneurs and innovative projects. However, the lack of interoperability and consistency across services keeps many businesses from adoption. There have been several calls for standards to... Nov. 11, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 331 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk CIOs don't really care about the cloud. They care about budgets, security and compliance. All the buzzwords in the world won't help innovative technology unless it maps directly onto CIO pain points. This session investigates what those pain points are, and where emerging products and ... Nov. 11, 2008 01:03 PM Reads: 314 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk The Infrastructure-as-a-Service model of early cloud computing providers has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, it should enhance the alignment ... Nov. 11, 2008 12:30 PM Reads: 339 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk As the market seeks to understand how to deliver the cloud, VMware uncovers its plan to leverage their technology leadership in virtualization to deliver reliable, mobile technology to its customers and service providers worldwide. This session takes an industry leaders perspective and... Nov. 11, 2008 10:37 AM Reads: 213 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk As cloud computing becomes more commonplace, creating a secure method to bridge the gap between existing data centers and remote sources of compute capacity is becoming more and more important. The ability to efficiently and securely tap into remote cloud resources is one of the most i... Nov. 11, 2008 10:34 AM Reads: 262 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk The events of the second half of 2008, where established financial institutions vanished overnight, have sent ripples through the entire fabric of the world’s economy. This means that nimble new competitors can seize both global and regional market opportunities that previously have ... Nov. 11, 2008 10:31 AM Reads: 239 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk According to AMI Partners, a leading SMB research firm, 62 percent of midsize businesses see customer relationship management as strategically important, yet only 14 percent have implemented it due to return on investment pressures and limited resources. Further, while 64 percent think... Nov. 11, 2008 09:41 AM Reads: 268 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Stodolnic brings more than 15 years of marketing experience at both start-ups and Fortune 1000 companies to help guide Hyperic's fast-paced growth. He has worked for successful technology companies during their early stages of development within the enterprise software and Software as ... Nov. 11, 2008 09:38 AM Reads: 318 |
By Cloud Computing News Desk Scalent's software is unique in its ability to provide real-time data center management, automation, and virtualization across physical and virtual servers, networks, and storage. Scalent V/OE software enables data centers to react in real-time to changing business needs by shifting wo... Nov. 11, 2008 09:35 AM Reads: 194 |